A wish for a waltz

Paramjit Bakhshi

At the beginning of this piece let me put up a warning sign.

SLOW DOWN.

No, of course there is no speed breaker here. I couldn’t have put one if I wanted to, on this shiny new paper. However it is around these two words that the article is going to revolve.

In a day and age where everything is about speed, you will wonder whether you have stumbled across some Neolithic writing. ‘Hey stop this nonsense man’ you must want to scream. You will point out that everything that is exciting in this world is fast. There is absolutely nothing as exhilarating as a fast car and nothing as delicious as fast food. We even have exciting fast men and women. Well, try spending a lifetime with all three and you will end with the bonus gifts of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and low self esteem.